Breakfast brief: Gloomy start but clearer skies later

A cold, overcast start but cloud cover clears into the evening.

It's a cold and gloomy start to Friday, but the cloud clears later ahead of a planetary parade with eight planets visible, wind gusts are calm for most, reaching up to 35 mph in western Scotland and Ireland.

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